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Lucy Barnes

@lucy-barnes.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Economy, UCL. She/her. Here to lurk.

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations!

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · 27d

100% correct response

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28d

lol fuck you

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 28d

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28d

lol fuck you

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 28d

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 20

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds

New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Aug 8

Almost: some of us got lucky and own it

Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Aug 4

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Aug 4

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Sep 18

I don't believe in any growth strategy that doesn't make clear the political choices being confronted in 'choosing growth'. Here are some of them. freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/p...

Political choices in choosing growth

One of the natural reactions to learning that Labour has a mission to grow the economy is to sneer. Every government wants to grow the economy! Most Budgets announce themselves as being a Budget for G...

freethinkecon.wordpress.com

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · Oct 17

Here’s a fun game I play: it’s called Ignore A Mountain of Positive Feedback and Find One Tiny Negative Thing to Fuckin’ Bum Yourself Out About. I invite you to join, but I’m telling you now I’m basically the best at it

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Julian Limberg @julianlimberg.bsky.social · Oct 30

It's budget day and the UK government needs money. What to do? A good time to highlight some recent work in political science on citizens' fiscal policy attitudes. A short thread.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Nov 8

While canvassing, a couple I talked to said they wouldn't pick Harris "because of the interest rates." Probing, it was clear interest rates have little impact on them. It's just a concept that resonated with their sense money isn't as easy for them as they felt it should be. 3/

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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · Nov 15

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) how does life stage influence how economics matters politically?
2. How has income as a measure messed up pol sci?

Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · Nov 15

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) Can state govts /federalism help safeguard democracy?
2) Why are we still forced to make a binary choice re. ballot queries?

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Lexi Schubert @schubertlexi.bsky.social · Nov 18

#JMP Alert #EconTwitter

Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t.

lexischubert.github.io/uploads/Schu...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Nov 29

And then, because this is arguably the most preposterous country on earth, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle says: "Right, thank you everybody. We're going to move on to the ferrets bill if people wish to leave."

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · Feb 4

Fascinating (no, really!).

The way UK inflation is worked out is changing – and it will matter for everyone

Gathering data on consumer prices and the products we’re really buying will become far more precise, giving a better picture of how we deal with rising costs.

theconversation.com

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · Mar 27

Who will speak for Henry? “Pity the High Earner, Not Rich Yet”
economist.com/britain/2025...

Who will speak for Henry?

The “High Earner, Not Rich Yet” is the most overlooked voter in British politics

economist.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Apr 1

'The proportion who say they have a high interest in news has almost halved in the UK over the last decade, from 70% in 2015 to 38% last year, according to the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.'
That's why most of us on this platform are a weird sample!
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Outlets seek fresh strategies as UK poll shows ‘news avoidance’ on the rise

Negative content and distrust among reasons given by audiences as industry works on how to keep them engaged

www.theguardian.com

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · Apr 8

I don’t think I ever got more love or hate for anything I’ve written than I did for this on @mcsweeneys.net.

So many clicks and shares as well as people being furious.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You

The War on Drugs You make your own paella and take super long naps on Saturday. Like over two hours, consistently. You prefer the smallest possible...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · Jan 25

Hey @polisky.bsky.social #gendersky Friends! Want to PUBLISH papers? please REVIEW. As @mirya.bsky.social says, you owe x3 reviews for # of submissions for the system to work smoothly. @cpsjournal.bsky.social received 120+ submissions from Dec 1 to today and HUNDREDS of reviewer declines. Bad Math.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jul 12

yes, next question

Can me and women be just friends by the economist

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Jul 9

Please, God, no

Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Jul 9

My hunch is that it is hard to reconcile perceived levels of inequality (high, growing) with the idea that taxes are (sufficiently) progressive

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Jul 8

This, but also for research

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Jun 21

Very Cirrus People

Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Jun 2

populism<->austerity doom loop, anyone?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · May 29

Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:

What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)

Who are you arguing against?

What alternatives are you rejecting and why?

What follows if you’re right?

These are also good questions for Q&A.

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Lucy Barnes @lucy-barnes.bsky.social · Apr 29

Love this but think the gaming element is the cherry; the “seeing like a market” (or if you prefer, the Beatles (can’t buy me love)) is the cake

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Apr 25

Gender neutral spaces have existed for years, we all know that. It isn't trans and non-binary individuals attacking women without any repercussions, that's men. Nothing about demonising trans and non-binary individuals makes women safer. It does make people more vulnerable though. 3/5

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · Apr 23

📣 New BJPIR article out now!

'The political effects of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone' by Andrew McNeil and Frieder Mitsch

⬇️ Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/QIn8Bm9

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

buff.ly

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Apr 22

“define a woman” fine ok, so you know when shania twain says “let’s go girls”? if you go then you’re a woman

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